(a.) Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
(a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.
(n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(3) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(4) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
(5) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(6) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(7) Removing that economic incentive is the most powerful thing we can do to reduce levels of immigration back to what British people want to see,” he said.
(8) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
(9) Including these incentive or responsibility payments in fixed pay is also more honest in accounting terms.
(10) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(11) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(12) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
(13) As an incentive, there should be mass availability of all types of contraceptive devices free of charge to users or at least highly subsidized.
(14) This can only be accomplished by providing time, facilities, incentives, and encouragement to do what originally attracted the teacher into a career in science and teaching in the first place.
(15) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(16) As a consumer-oriented regulatory tool, it is valuable though limited since it can only react to proposals and can neither initiate nor provide positive incentives for new programs.
(17) This measure aims to be an incentive for the industry to provide more healthy options.
(18) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
(19) However, few new commonhold flats are being built, as developers do not have the incentive of profiting from the freehold.
(20) Youth unemployment has fallen by 59,000 since the scheme's launch, but the low take-up of the wage incentive scheme means it can claim little credit.
Incentivize
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Reasonable use” sounds … well, reasonable, but a “use it or lose it” clause incentivizes profligate use: if you don’t use your historic water allocation in a beneficial way, you forfeit your water rights, Gray said.
(2) We’re working to incentivize all Democrats who may run for president – including Clinton – to promote expanding Social Security benefits, making college debt-free, and breaking up the Wall Street banks that broke our economy,” said PCCC’s TJ Helmstetter.
(3) In keeping with Obama’s approach to use the promise of weapons to incentivize Baghdad to make favorable political choices, administration officials are also discussing backfilling any weaponry to the Kurds provided by Baghdad, considered a step toward mitigating any decisive split between Baghdad and Irbil.
(4) Music may still be a big part of AF Square's plans, though, judging by Carter's comment that "we need great minds around music: if entrepreneurs aren't incentivized, music is going to be stuck in the dark age".
(5) We need to change the entire culture and show people that it is not just a question of who commits the violence, but about all those that incentivize and maintain it,” she said.
(6) But when the country implemented policies that incentivized men taking time off in 1995 – like a “use it or lose it” month off specifically for fathers – the rate of paternity leave skyrocketed to more than eight in 10 men using it.
(7) The culture of DC think tanks, "international relations" professionals, and foreign policy commenters breeds allegiance to these American prerogatives and US power centers - incentivizes reflexive defenses of US government actions - because, as Gelb says, that is the only way to advance one's careerist goals as a "national security professional".
(8) Eisenberg said that the government initially sought to black out the word “incentivize” from Bogdan’s testimony but ultimately backed down.
(9) Health education implies all which supports life, growth, and incentivates the flowing of vitality, also all which helps to overcome both rigidity and unbalanced situations.
(10) In what looked like an attempt to salvage a compromise, Adler, the mayor, tried to introduce a voluntary scheme under which Uber and Lyft drivers would be incentivized, rather than compelled, to submit their fingerprints.
(11) Open-source reporting on each classified strike comes through official leaks, which incentivize presuming those killed are militants until proven otherwise.
(12) The NSA’s director, General Keith Alexander, told CBS that granting Snowden amnesty would reward the leaks and potentially incentivize future ones.
(13) Obama’s Race to the Top competition incentivized states to open up more charters.
(14) The methodological methods for a reduction of the noise pollution in the urban areas, mainly, can be advised in 8 operative points: 1) reduction of the source's noise; 2) control of the traffic; 3) planning of the urban and regional development; 4) building's shelter against the noise; 5) compensation's and incentivation's interventions for the exposed people; 6) controls activity and restaining of the noise's sources; 7) scientific research; 8) health education.
(15) While accountability is important, Vitchers said, "we need to have a conversation about how to incentivize schools to prevent sexual assault so they don't focus on compliance over prevention."
(16) That is something we are having great discussions on figuring out.” According to Hotez, the whole business model of vaccine development needs overhauling to incentivize mid-sized biotech firms and product development partnerships, which he’s involved in, to help find solutions.
(17) The results of a research project carried out along with head-physicians of the Municipal Health Services (PAMs) of the city of S. Paulo in order to survey their knowledge, expectations and willingness to participate in and incentivate educational programs in the various PAMs, are reported on.
(18) In a rational society with a quasi-thoughtful legislative body incentivized to not destroy government as we know it, lawmakers would come together to repair the ACA.
(19) As for China, the near-term emphasis ought to be on incentivizing Beijing to help deal with the most immediate threat emanating from that region, namely North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile capacity.
(20) In a statement supporting a bill to fight EPA regulations on carbon dioxide, Price said : “This decision goes against all common sense, especially considering the many recent revelations of errors and obfuscation in the allegedly ‘settled science’ of global warming.” He has consistently voted against incentivizing renewable energy sources with tax credits and in favor of increased oil exploration.